George Jones: Heard of Kennedy shooting with co-workers

I was at lunch with my buddy, and we were in Preston Center. They have a big TV up above the counter and all the sudden (the news) breaks. They said, ‘President shot.’ Complete silence. Everybody just dropped their spoons and forks. Everybody couldn’t believe it and watched it.

We went back to the bank afterwards. That was about the time they announced he was dead.

One of the most poignant things I remember was a young lady who was a devout Catholic. When they announced that he was dead, she had a her rosary in her hand and she walked into the vault … into the back of the vault and did a rosary for Kennedy. It was tremendously moving at the time.

— George Jones, 69, co-founder and CEO of Texas Capital Bancshares and former CEO of Texas Capital Bank, based in Dallas. In 1963, he was working as a bookkeeper at Preston State Bank while taking a semester off from the University of Texas.